Townsend is a topographic surname of Yorkshire and Norfolk origin, indicating residence at the extremity of a city or burgh. Popular variants are Townshend, and Townend.
Townsend is a topographic surname of Yorkshire and Norfolk origin, indicating residence at the extremity of a city or burgh (from Middle English touun "village", "hamlet", "stead" + ende "end"). Popular variants are Townshend (of Norfolk variety), and Townend.
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Given name
Townsend Bell (born 1975), motor racing driver
Townsend Coleman (born 1954), American voice actor
Townsend Cromwell (1922–1958), oceanographer
Townsend Dodd (1886–1919), US Army aviator
Townsend A. Ely (1843–1928), American politician from Michigan
Townsend Haines (1792–1865), American politician and judge from Pennsylvania
Townsend Harris (1804–1878), 19th century American merchant and politician
Townsend Hoopes (1922–2004), former Undersecretary of the US Air Force
Townsend Saunders (born 1967), Olympic medalist in wrestling
Townsend Scudder (1865–1960), US Congressman from New York
Townsend Whelen (1877–1961), American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman
Middle name
Charles Townsend Ludington (1896–1968), American aviator
Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861–1920), American journalist
Frederick Townsend Martin (1849–1914), American author
Frederick Townsend Ward (1831–1862), American mercenary
James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916), American author
Light Townsend Cummins (born 1946), American educator and historian
Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (1907–1987), American professor
Mary Townsend Seymour (1873–1957), African-American politician
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poet
Thomas Townsend Brown (1905–1985), American inventor
Surname
Townsend
A. A. Townsend (1810–1888), American pioneer and politician
Albert Alan Townsend (1917–2010), Australian fluid dynamicist
Alf Townsend (1900–1973), rugby league footballer of the 1920s for New Zealand
Amos Townsend (1821–1895), American politician
Andros Townsend (born 1991), English football player
Andy Townsend (born 1963), Irish soccer player
Anna Townsend (1845–1923), American silent film actress
Anel Townsend (born 1966), Peruvian politician
Ben Townsend (born 1981), English football player
Bertha Townsend (1869–1909), American tennis player
Bill Townsend, American entrepreneur
Bill Townsend (footballer) (1922–1988), English football player and manager
Boris Townsend (1919–2006), English physicist
Brian Townsend (poker player), American poker player
Bruce C. Townsend, American politician
Cade Townsend (born 2005), American baseball player
Camilla Townsend (born 1965), American historian
Townshend
Anne Townshend (1573–1622), English Puritan
Aurelian Townshend, English poet
Cenzo Townshend, English music producer
Charles Townshend (disambiguation)
The Honorable Charlotte Anne Townshend, English landowner (Melbury House, Dorset) and daughter of the 9th Viscount Galway
Chauncy Hare Townshend, English poet and collector
Cliff Townshend, musician (1916–1986)
Dorothea Petrie Townshend Carew (1895 - 1968), poet, writer and the editor of a literary magazine
Emma Townshend, writer and musician, daughter of Pete Townshend
George Townshend (disambiguation)
Graeme Townshend, retired ice hockey forward
Henry Townshend (disambiguation)
John Townshend (disambiguation), several people
Pete Townshend, guitarist and songwriter of The Who
Robert "Fuzz" Townshend, British drummer
Simon Townshend, musician (brother of Pete Townshend)
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
William Townshend (colonial governor)
Townesend
Stephen Townesend (priest), Dean of Exeter, 1583–1588
Stephen Townesend (surgeon), English surgeon, stage actor, anti-vivisectionist and writer
Pseudonyms
Mike Townsend, pseudonym of Michael McCrea, a British financial adviser, author and convicted killer
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Cathy Townsend (born 1937), Canadian ten-pin bowler
Charles Townsend (disambiguation) (multiple, includes "Charlie")
Chauncy Townsend (1708–1770), British politician
Chuck Townsend, American politician
Chris Townsend (disambiguation)
Clinton Paul Townsend (1868 — 1931), American chemist
M. Clifford Townsend (1884–1954), former Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana
Cornelia Townsend (born 11 August 1851, date of death unknown), American composer
Cyril Townsend, Sir Cyril David Townsend (1937–2013), British politician.
Dallas Townsend, Dallas S. Townsend, Jr. (1919–1995), American broadcaster
Darian Townsend (born 1984), South African swimmer
Dave Townsend (born 1954), contemporary British musician
David Townsend (disambiguation)
Deshea Townsend (born 1975), American football player
Dequan Townsend (born 1986), American mixed martial artist
Devin Townsend (born 1972), Canadian musician
Dobbo Townshend (1944–2013), Zimbabwean cricketer
Douglas Townsend (1921–2012), American composer
Dwight Townsend (1826–1899), U.S. Representative from New York
E. Reginald Townsend (1917–1980), American politician and journalist
Ed Townsend (1929–2003), songwriter
Eddie Townsend (1914–1988), boxing trainer
Edward D. Townsend (1817–1893), Adjutant General of the United States Army
Edgar Jerome Townsend (1864–1955), American mathematician and translator of David Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie.
Eliza Townsend (1788–1854), American poet
Elizabeth Sthreshley Townsend (died 1919), American inventor
Emma Jose Townsend (1869–1965), British recipient of the Empire Gallantry Medal
